So, there's this big trip coming up - Jacqueline and I are going to Australia and New Zealand for four weeks. Exciting, right? As you might expect, given the illustrious personages involved, this trip will be a masterpiece of planning. To give you an idea of what I'm talking about, I'll share a bit of the itinerary.
We're flying into Sydney, Australia, and then - four weeks later - we are flying home from Auckland, New Zealand. Because we are amazing planners who plan, we had those tickets booked 5 months ago, and gave notice to our workplace that we were planning to be gone for a month. So efficient.
However, up to about a week and a half ago, we hadn't ever nailed down exactly HOW we were getting from Australia to New Zealand. This is a crucial missing piece of the "round trip theory" by which we somehow return home.
Our thought of possibly catching a boat (for fun!) was stymied by the fact that there's a distance of 2500 kms from the Australian coast to the New Zealand coast. Huh. And it would take a while to cross. And apparently the seas are choppy. Like, a barf-worthy level of chop, according to the good Aussies on the travel pages, who very highly recommended against such an idiotic course of action.
So, Jacqueline and I decided against spending many days in slow, expensive, barfy travel aboard some kind of container ship. Instead, we will do the quick (maybe still barfy) travel aboard an airplane. As of a week ago, we have tickets booked on a local short-haul airline, and we have now closed the travel loop, which will theoretically enable us to eventually catch our plane home. Brilliant!
We've got a place to stay in Australia, so that's good. It doesn't have air conditioning, so that's not good. But it is in a super-desirable tourist location, so that's good. And we're Sydney-based for our Australia component, so that's easy-peasy.
Once we go over to New Zealand, however, we are nomadic wanderers. We have pre-booked a few places to stay in New Zealand, but there are still big gaps in the itinerary, so we should probably figure that out. For now, I will pencil in "sleep in car" for those days. Oh, and we should get a car booked, too.
And it's Wednesday today, and we leave on Sunday. I should probably pack, or something.
Like I said, this adventure is a true masterpiece of travel planning. Think of it as an extra-weird episode of "The Amazing Race." What could possibly go wrong?
Whatever does go wrong, you'll read about it here. 😉
We're flying into Sydney, Australia, and then - four weeks later - we are flying home from Auckland, New Zealand. Because we are amazing planners who plan, we had those tickets booked 5 months ago, and gave notice to our workplace that we were planning to be gone for a month. So efficient.
However, up to about a week and a half ago, we hadn't ever nailed down exactly HOW we were getting from Australia to New Zealand. This is a crucial missing piece of the "round trip theory" by which we somehow return home.
Our thought of possibly catching a boat (for fun!) was stymied by the fact that there's a distance of 2500 kms from the Australian coast to the New Zealand coast. Huh. And it would take a while to cross. And apparently the seas are choppy. Like, a barf-worthy level of chop, according to the good Aussies on the travel pages, who very highly recommended against such an idiotic course of action.
So, Jacqueline and I decided against spending many days in slow, expensive, barfy travel aboard some kind of container ship. Instead, we will do the quick (maybe still barfy) travel aboard an airplane. As of a week ago, we have tickets booked on a local short-haul airline, and we have now closed the travel loop, which will theoretically enable us to eventually catch our plane home. Brilliant!
We've got a place to stay in Australia, so that's good. It doesn't have air conditioning, so that's not good. But it is in a super-desirable tourist location, so that's good. And we're Sydney-based for our Australia component, so that's easy-peasy.
Once we go over to New Zealand, however, we are nomadic wanderers. We have pre-booked a few places to stay in New Zealand, but there are still big gaps in the itinerary, so we should probably figure that out. For now, I will pencil in "sleep in car" for those days. Oh, and we should get a car booked, too.
And it's Wednesday today, and we leave on Sunday. I should probably pack, or something.
Like I said, this adventure is a true masterpiece of travel planning. Think of it as an extra-weird episode of "The Amazing Race." What could possibly go wrong?
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| I see this scene playing out in our future. JQ is obviously being unreasonable again. |
Whatever does go wrong, you'll read about it here. 😉
We're totally screwed. :(
ReplyDeleteSpoke the boiled frog. So grim and so grouchy! :-P
DeleteI wish you the best trip ever. It is going to be fun for sure. Please remember me when you put on your sunglasses at the beach. :) AA!
ReplyDeleteIt will be epic fun, or it will be an epic disaster. We'll see how it shakes out. Usually the disasters make for better reading, though! ;)
DeleteHave fun
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